WEIRD NEWS

A woman believed to be the mother of a Texas seventh-grade
volleyball
player pulled a gun on a rival team celebrating a lopsided win over her
daughter's outmatched squad, officials said Friday.

"She was irate during the game," Keith said. "My understanding,
according to the principal, is that the Metzger team lost pretty bad.
They were getting hit with balls during the game and were just
outmatched."

Keith said girls on the Kirby team had left the gym and were walking to
their bus after the game, laughing and celebrating, when the woman
approached and threatened to kill one or more of them.

A Serbian schoolgirl has amazed [naieve] medics with her
astonishing
[supposedly] magnetic hands. Ten-year-old Jelena Momcilov has
[supposedly] been picking up cutlery, coins and even metal furniture by
just touching them at her family home in Zeljusa, since she first
[claims to have] discovered her powers five years ago.

[Exceedingly gullible] experts at nearby Nis University have urged
[real] scientists to investigate. "I'd say this is a kind of unknown
bio-magnetism. More experts would need to join me and research what
this is all about," said department head Pavle Premovic [who ostensibly
falls for every absurd scam which crosses his path].

Three Syracuse women escaped being stopped by loss
prevention officers
at a [Walmart] store Wednesday by swinging an occupied baby carrier at
one of the store’s loss prevention officers and spraying pepper spray
on the store employee and shoppers.

Loss prevention officers at Walmart attempted to stop the three after
the women tried to leave the store without paying for more than $1,100
in merchandise. Goode repeatedly swung the baby carrier containing her
3-week-old daughter at the loss prevention officer to avoid being taken
into custody and used the carrier to repeatedly push the officer away
from her, police said.

Durham then sprayed the pepper spray on the Walmart loss prevention
officer and on bystanders before all three escaped into McBean’s car
and drove away, police said.

A loss prevention officer was taken to a hospital after suffering an
allergic reaction to the pepper spray, police said. The baby was not
injured and was turned over to a relative, police said.

Police in Florida said they arrested a man who allegedly
broke into a
woman's apartment and performed a sex act over her while she slept.

Punta Gorda Police said [the man] apparently entered the woman's Gulf
Breeze Apartments residence through an unlocked door. She awoke at 8:30
a.m. Thursday and saw the suspect standing over her and performing a
sex act on himself.

The woman told police she recognized [the man], who also lives at the
apartment complex, but did not know him personally.

A Wisconsin street musician known as "Bongo Jesus"
allegedly
responded
to criticism of his guitar playing by hitting his critic on the head
with his instrument, police said. "The dispute started over some
questionable guitar playing," police spokesman Joel DeSpain said.

A 54-year-old homeless man apparently had an opinion of Hochstrasser's
musical ability. Police say he then tackled the man, threw another man
into a wall and wrestled with a police sergeant before being subdued
with a stun gun and arrested.

Bongo was charged with battery, battery to a police officer, resisting
arrest and disorderly conduct.